Facebook’s Zuckerberg Announces Marriage, Updates Status on Page

Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg, and Priscilla Chan hold hands in this frame grab made from Zuckerberg's facebook page where he announced their marriage in Palo Alto, California, U.S. on Saturday, May 19, 2012. The two updated their Facebook pages with a wedding photo and changed their relationship statuses to "married". Source: Facebook via Bloomberg

May 20 (Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Officer
Mark Zuckerberg announced his marriage to Priscilla Chan on his
Facebook page yesterday. The couple wed in a ceremony in the
backyard of his home in Palo Alto, California, the Associated
Press reported.

The two updated their Facebook pages with a wedding photo,
and changed their relationship statuses to “married.” The
ceremony came after Facebook raised $16 billion in the largest
initial public offering on record for a technology company.

Facebook shares rose 0.6 percent to $38.23 as of 4 p.m. in
New York on May 18 after earlier trading at the IPO price of
$38, which valued the company at $104.2 billion. Zuckerberg’s
net worth rose $100 million to $19.4 billion, ranking him 26th
on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, ahead of Google Inc.’s
Sergey Brin and Larry Page.

The Facebook photograph shows Zuckerberg in a suit rather
than his trademark hoodie, and Chan in a white wedding dress.
The pair met at Harvard University, where Zuckerberg founded the
social-networking site in 2004, and have been together for nine
years, AP reported, citing a guest authorized by the couple to
speak.

Zuckerberg, who was named Time magazine’s Person of the
Year in 2010, designed the ring featuring “a very simple
ruby,” AP said, citing the same source.